Christmas Carol quotes

Question 1

One about Scrooge being secret

Answer 1

“He was secret and self-contained and solitary as an oyster”

Question 2

One about Scrooge staying away from humans

Answer 2

“It was the very thing he liked. To edge his way along the crowded paths of life, warning human sympathy to keep its distance”

Question 3

One about Scrooge looking back on his lonely childhood

Answer 3

’ “A solitary child, neglected by his friends, is left there still.”
Scrooge said he knew it. And he sobbed.’

Question 4

One about Scrooge longing for a child because he thinks his life would be better if he had children

Answer 4

“Scrooge looked on more attentively than ever … and when he thought that such another creature might have called him Father, and been a spring time in the haggard winter of his life, his sight grew very dim indeed.”

Question 5

One about Scrooge asking for forgiveness from Fred

Answer 5

“It’s I. Your Uncle Scrooge. I have come to dinner. Will you let me in, Fred?”

Question 6

One about Scrooge being a father figure for Tiny Tim

Answer 6

“to Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, he was a second father.”

Question 7

“He was a tight-fisted …

Answer 7

“He was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone. A squeezing, wrenching, grasping … covetous old sinner”

Question 8

“Darkness was …

Answer 8

“Darkness was cheap and Scrooge liked it”

Question 9

“As secret, self- ….

Answer 9

“As secret, self-contained and solitary as an oyster”

Question 10

“I will live in the Past, …

Answer 10

“I will live in the Past,the Present and the Future. The spirits of all Three will strive within me”

Question 11

“I am as light …

Answer 11

“I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy”

Question 12

Quotes about Scrooge at the beginning (6)

Answer 12

• “Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone”
• “a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner!”
• “as secret self contained and solitary as an oyster” “hard and sharp as flint”
• “The cold within him froze his old features”,”thin blue lips”,”frosty rime was on his head”
• “the fog and darkness thickened” (after refusing the portly gentleman)
• “Scrooge had a very small fire but the clerk’s fire was so very much smaller that it looked like one coal” “a very low fire indeed”

Question 13

Quotes about Scrooge transforming in Stave 1/2 (6)

Answer 13

• “are there no prisons, no workhouses for the poor?”
• “then the poor should die and decrease the surplus population”
• “a lonely boy was sat reading near a feeble fire” “a solitary child, neglected by his friends, is left there still”
• “his heart and soul were in the scene” (about Fezziwig)
• “No. I should like to be able to say a word or two to my clerk just now”
• “Show me no more! Conduct me home. Why do you delight to torture me?” (response to Belle)

Question 14

Quotes about Scrooge transforming in Stave 3/4 (4)

Answer 14

• ‘said Scrooge with an interest he had never felt before, “Tell me if Tiny Tim will live’
• “Have they no refuge or resource?” (about Ignorance and Want)
• “The night is waning fast, and it is precious time to me, I know. Lead on, Spirit!”
• ‘“Spirit!” he cried, clutching at its robe, “hear me! I am not the man I was!” ‘

Question 15

Quotes about Scrooge transformed at the end (4)

Answer 15

• “I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy”
• “I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year”
• “To Tiny Tim who did not die, he was a second father”
• “No fog, no mist; clear, bright golden sunlight; Heavenly sky; sweet fresh air”

Question 16

Quotes about the Cratchits (4)

Answer 16

• “dressed out but poorly in a twice-turned gown, but brave in ribbons, which are cheap and make a goodly show for sixpence”
• “not a handsome family; they were not well dressed; their shoes were far from being water-proof; their clothes were scanty”
• “all the Cratchit family drew round the hearth”
• “Two tumblers, and a custard-cup without a handle”

Question 17

Quotes about Ignorance and Want (4)

Answer 17

• “Two children; wretched, abject, frightful, hideous, miserable”
• “They were a boy and a girl. Yellow, meagre, ragged, scowling, wolfish”
• “They are Man’s … they cling to me, appealing from their fathers”
• “This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both.”

Question 18

Stave 1 quotes (7)

Answer 18

• “The cold within him froze his old features” , “thin blue lips” , “frosty rime was on his head”
• “a squeezing, wrenching, grasping … covetous old sinner”
• “as secret, self-contained and solitary as an oyster”
• “Scrooge had a very small fire but the clerk’s fire was so very much smaller that it looked like one coal”
• “Are there no prisons, no workhouses for the poor?”
• “Then they better do it and decrease the surplus population”
• “I wear the chains I forged in life” “Mankind was my business”

Question 19

Stave 2 quotes (6)

Answer 19

• “It was strange figure - like a child: yet not so like a child”
• “A lonely boy was sat reading near a feeble fire”
• “A solitary child, neglected by his friends, is left there still”
• “His heart and soul were in the scene” (about Fezziwig)
• “Another idol has displaced me, a golden one”
• “a spring-time in the haggard winter of his life, his sight grew very dim indeed”

Question 20

Stave 3 quotes (5)

Answer 20

• “dressed out but poorly in a twice-turned gown, but brave in ribbons, which are cheap and make a goodly show for sixpence”
• “All the Crachit family drew round the hearth”
• “with an interest he had never felt before ‘Tell me if Tiny Tim will live’”
• “have they no refuge or resource ? (about Ignorance and Want)
• “They are Man’s” “Yellow, meagre, ragged, scowling, wolfish”

Question 21

Stave 4 quotes (3)

Answer 21

• “The Phantom slowly, gravely, silently approached”
• “He frightened every one away when he was alive, to profit us when he is dead” - Mrs Dilber (the laundress)
• “hear me! I am not the man I was!”

Question 22

Stave 5 quotes (4)

Answer 22

• “I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy”
• “No fog, no mist; clear bright … Golden sunlight”
• “I will honour Christmas in my heart and try to keep it all the year”
• “To Tiny Tim who did not die, he was a second father”